Making Music, in partnership with Classic FM, is delighted to announce the seven winners of Britain’s Big Platinum Performance – a nationwide search to showcase some of the country’s best leisure-time music groups.
As part of Classic FM’s 30th birthday celebrations and to mark The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, Making Music teamed up with the UK’s most popular classical music station to champion hobby musicians and celebrate everyday music making across the UK.
First-time participants to Make Music Day and contemporary gospel group based in Preston, One Voice Community Choir, reminisce on their contribution to this year’s festivities
Rebecca Demott of the Bedfordshire Woodwind Academy Flute Ensemble (BWAFE) describes their group's latest workshop with Edgar Divver, as part of their collaboration for Adopt a Music Creator 2022.
Last week we held a Saturday workshop so that Edgar could introduce us to each of the five movements of the Brushstrokes suite. This is the moment we'd had all been waiting for!
Vilma Weaver, Musical Director and Conductor of Coventry’s Ashira Singers, was presented with the Lady Hilary Groves Prize from Making Music.
With the occassion of the 14 June Ashira Singers concert, Making Music Board member Carol Pemberton took this opportunity to present Vilma Weaver with her Lady Hilary Groves Prize, having previously won it in 2020 for her outstanding work in Coventry’s music scene over 50 years.
Liv Feilden, member of The Phoenix Voices, describes how it was to record for BBC Radio 3 as part of Adopt a Music Composer 2020/21.
Liv Feilden, member of The Phoenix Voices, recounts how her music group's premiere of Lucy Callen's compositions went, as part of Adopt a Music Composer 2020/21.
Dominic Matthews, experimental composer from Manchester, discusses the power of community, accessibility and exploring new music with leisure-time music group Singing for Pleasure.
‘...a great opportunity to properly address one of my key interests as a composer, which is to make new music more accessible and understandable to everyone’
Following on from a Making Music promoters event, Barbara Eifler, Making Music Chief Executive, recaps the importance of promoters and artists managers working together and understanding each other.
Around 400 of Making Music’s members don’t play or sing themselves, but present professional musicians, soloists or small ensembles in a concert or in a festival.
Wendy Barnaby, member of Sussex Chorus, takes us through 100 remarkable years of her group.
The Charity Commission are asking for submissions to a consultation on their approach to annual returns, and a new set of questions they propose to ask in the annual return itself.
Registered charities in England and Wales with an annual income over £10,000 must complete an annual return of some form – so proposed changes may affect your group.
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